Quote:Oh yeah?!?!?!?! I can count to potato... backwards.

Got you beat. I know my alphabet, A through 4.

 

Quote:Agree with all of the above, which is why I found it quite humorous when someone came to the board saying they knew who the team was going to pick, and that they had it on good authority.  The owner of the team didn't know who we were picking until Wednesday night. 

But if now-vanished know-it-alls weren't around to make idiotic guarantees about things they know nothing about, how would we have any fun around here?

 

Quote:When schmucks like Mayock, Kiper, McShay get 6-7 correct picks out of 32, it should send a message that guarantees in the draft are like guarantees to win the lottery.

Indeed. Those guys are all very good at breaking down tape (well, aside from McSnot, who sucks at everything), but terrible at projecting picks outside of, I don't know, the top one. They all tend to get that pick right, then it's anybody's guess. I love how Kiper still occasionally brings up the Trev Alberts thing, when he harshly criticized the then-GM (Accorsi?) of the Colts in 1994 for picking Albert over Trent Dilfer, offering up the argument that Albert bombed out and Dilfer won a Super Bowl.

 

He conveniently forgets the part about how Dilfer was a consistently terrible QB throughout his career, and he had about as much to do with that Super Bowl win as I did. Ray Lewis and the D brought that baby home in a year where at least one member of the Ravens' offense even acknowledged that their goal was 10 points per game and let the defense do the rest. Yeah, some stud quarterback you were thumping the table for, Kiper.

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